SPUG: Slice of an arrary within a hash?

[Rob Garrett]

Thanks Joel and Ned -

That's it!

I wasn't seeing the forest for the trees (the array reference behind the
subscripts).

I was using the slice to "cast/transform/..." the @prices array into a list
of exactly 4 elements regardless of the size of the array (and this seems to
work).  I could accomplish the same result by setting the array size prior
to assigning its contents to %DATA?

Thanks!

Rob

------Original Message------
From: Joel <largest at largest.org>
To: spug-list at pm.org
Sent: May 5, 2000 6:46:25 PM GMT
Subject: Re: SPUG: Slice of an arrary within a hash?


Replying to myself here...

I now see you were talking about slices.  If this is what you want, you
could do one of the following 2 ways:


#!/usr/bin/perl

# You should always use strict
use strict;

my %DATA;
my $dsku   = 'fred';
my @prices = ('11.11','22.22','33.33','44.44');


# EITHER THIS
$DATA{$dsku}[0]         = '00.00';
@{ $DATA{$dsku} }[1..4] = @prices;
$DATA{$dsku}[5]         = '55.55';

# OR THIS
@{ $DATA{$dsku} }[0..5] = ('00.00', @prices, '55.55');


#I also moved my $count++ so that it reflects 0-5, not 1-6
my $count = 0;

for my $element ( @{ $DATA{$dsku} } ) {
print "\$DATA{\$sku}[$count] = '$element'\n";
$count++;
}

__END__

HTH

Joel

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